One and a half hours later, it was the end of the Xu hour, Wei's family and the kitchen.

Looking at the white crystals gradually giving out round shapes in the iron pot, Xiao Wei's eyes widened, his mouth was open involuntarily, his hands were in a panic and reached in front of his mouth, covering his mouth tightly, and then he did not scream.

Ding Jian, who stopped burning the fire, looked up and saw his wife's shocked expression. He quickly got up and looked up at the iron pot.

When I saw this, I was also stunned.

There were only a scattered residues left in the water in the pot, and the snow-white crystals attached to the pot walls and condensed into a thick layer.

Without waiting for the cooling, Ding Jian picked up the chopsticks, gently scraped the white crystal, and handed the chopsticks to his mouth to suck.

Then, Ding Jian's eyes were as big as the commander, and the salty smell that stimulated from the tip of his tongue to the mind.

Salt! This is the unique salty taste of salt! Simple salt is not like coarse salt, mixed with bitterness and astringent taste!

Xiao Wei gently moved his palm away and asked in a low voice: "How is it?"

Ding Jian nodded mechanically, but the chopsticks were not taken out of his mouth, as if they were welded inside.

The white water vapor is still rising, and the remaining charcoal fire at the bottom of the pot is still emitting heat.

At this time, Wei Yun, who was probably about the time, walked in.

"How is it? Is the salt coming out?"

Unfortunately, Xiao Wei and Ding Jian seemed to be stunned and ignored Wei Yun at all.

Wei Yun walked to the stove on his own, leaned over and looked at the snow-white crystals in the iron pot, and nodded.

He turned around and took out a chopstick from the cabinet next to him, put it into the pot and dipped it in crystals, put it in his mouth and licked it, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, there are almost no impurities!"

Wei Yun seemed not to see the two of them looking at this time. He took the salt jar out on his own, crushed the dried salt crystals in the pot little by little, and mashed them into powder.

Then, one shovel after another, scoop them all into the washed salt jar and cover it with a lid.

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In the main hall, Xiao Wei grabbed Wei Yun's hand and asked nervously: "Brother Yun, tell me how did you know how to make fine salt?"

Wei Yun said calmly: "I saw it in the book!" Wei Yun blinked and asked with confusion.

It seems that he is talking about such a simple thing. Why did Xiao Wei ask himself?

Forehead!

"There is such a method in the book? Why don't I know?" Xiao Wei looked disbelief.

Wei Yun said casually: "Drying salt means drying the sea water through high temperature and obtaining the salt inside! Since it can be dried, why can't it be cooked?"

"But you obviously use coarse salt! Why do you cook it with fine salt as white as snow?"

Wei Yun explained patiently: "Filter, besides salt, there are many other things in the coarse salt, and those things cannot be integrated into the water. The two bamboo tubes and cotton cloth just now are just to filter out those impurities!"

Xiao Wei opened his mouth, wanted to ask, but didn't know what to ask, turned his head and looked at her husband who was also confused, and thought to himself: "Can I really be too stupid?"

Then I thought again that my younger brother was extremely intelligent since childhood. He was enlightened by his father at the age of three, and began to study the Four Books at the age of five.

My father even praised Yun Ge'er's intelligence for a long time, saying that he would definitely be able to establish a family in the future and revitalize the Wei family.

Thinking of this, Xiao Wei felt relieved and attributed everything to Wei Yun's intelligence that is extraordinary.

Looking at Xiao Wei's complicated gaze that was trapped in thought, Wei Yun yawned and said, "Second sister, brother-in-law, it's getting late. I'm going to the academy tomorrow morning. I'm sleepy, so go to bed first!"

Qingtan Academy only has two days off every month. Now that two days have passed, Wei Yun naturally has to return to the academy to go to school.

Xiao Wei grabbed Wei Yun's hand and still did not let go. Instead, he looked at Wei Yun's eyes and solemnly reminded: "Brother Yun, there is never a shortage of people with evil thoughts in this world. As the saying goes, every man is innocent, and he is guilty of possessing a treasure. Our Wei family is now powerless and powerful. You promise your second sister one thing."

Wei Yun nodded: "Second sister, I just agree!"

Xiao Wei said solemnly: "For today's affairs, except for your brother-in-law and me, don't tell anyone, and don't show this method in front of anyone in the future!

A man is innocent and is guilty of possessing a treasure. If it is leaked at this time, it may cause unreasonable disaster for my Wei family. At that time, it is not only you, but also me, your brother-in-law, and even the elder sister, who may die because of this! Do you remember?"

Wei Yun nodded heavily and said firmly: "Second sister, I am no longer a child. I know the importance of the matter. Don't worry, I will not tell anyone about these methods and these things."

As he said that, Xiao Wei also let go of Wei Yun's hand. Wei Yun stood up and bowed to the two of them, saying, "It's already very late. My second sister and brother-in-law should also rest early. Don't think too much about some things, just let it go! I'll go to bed first!"

Now the Xiao Wei couple slept in the east room of the main house, while Wei Yun slept in the west room.

It was originally said that Wei Yun should have slept in the west room, but Wei Xucai had just passed away a few months ago and Wei Yun was just ten years old. After thinking about it, the couple moved into the east room and gave the west room they originally lived to Wei Yun.

The next day, at the beginning of the hour of Mao, before dawn, the rooster at home crowed, Wei Yun had already climbed up from the bed, put on his clothes, tied his hair, and after he finished washing, Xiao Wei had already prepared breakfast!

"Come here quickly and have breakfast!" Xiao Wei and Ding Jian had already washed up, and Ding Jian had even chopped firewood in the yard for a while.

"Here you come! Second sister is early, brother-in-law is early!"

Wei Yun greeted the two of them, then prepared on the table on his own, picked up the bowl in front of him and drank hot porridge.

The porridge made of rice and lean meat is extremely thick, and there are steaming big meat buns on the table. Xiao Wei's skill in making buns was learned from Ding Jian from the northwest, but he is better than the blue one.

After adjusting the filling, the bun skin is thinner and the taste is naturally better.

Wei Yun ate a large bowl of lean meat porridge and two large meat buns. By the time breakfast was over, it was already bright.

Wei Yun first went to the study to sort out all the pens, ink, paper and inkstones, put them into the book basket that Ding Jian woven for him with bamboo strips, and read the book in the study for half an hour.

Then he punched military fists twice in the yard. When it was the beginning of Chen Shi, he carried the book basket and ran towards Qingtan Academy.

The Wei family, Xiao Wei, who was cleaning up, sat in the yard and stabbed her embroidered. After Ding Jian had breakfast early in the morning, he drove a ox cart to the city to deliver bean sprouts.

After Ding Jian returned from sending the bean sprouts and fed the scalpers, he had to go to the fields to plow for a long time.

Nowadays, spring plowing has begun. Although Daoxiang Village is endless, there are not many cattle in the village. Therefore, many families rent it like those with cattle, and the Xu family, who has thirty acres of land in the Wei family, borrows cattle from the Wei family every year for spring plowing.

Therefore, Ding Jian had to plow the six acres of land in his family early every year to avoid missing spring plowing in the Xu family.

If he hadn't been worried about getting tired of the cow, Ding Jian would have to work in the field all day before he would give up.

The six acres of fertile land that Ding Jian cultivated were brought into their Ding family as the dowry of the Xiaowei family when he married the Xiaowei family.

What was left for Wei Yun was the thirty acres of fertile land that he had given to the Xu family, one acre of dry land, the Wei family's yard and the five-point vegetable field behind.

Now, just a job in arable land, Ding Jian can do it alone with a scalper. When it comes to seedlings and transplanting, the couple will go to the ground together.

If the academy is on holiday, Wei Yun will also go to the fields to help.

Now Xiao Wei only needs to prepare the meal at noon every day and deliver it to her husband. The rest of the time is to do housework, take care of the five-point vegetable field in the backyard, and then embroider the home and earn a hard-earned money.

Although Xiao Wei's embroidery work is good, it is still worse than the embroiderer in Xiufang. Therefore, he can only make some small things such as handkerchiefs, purses and round fans, and then sell them to Xiufang. The price given by Xiufang will naturally not be too high.

However, if you do it quickly, do it a lot, and do it well, the income will be quite considerable.

Qingtan Academy is located in the outskirts of Yangzhou, with a low hill behind it. The hill is full of peach trees, so it is also called Taoshan. There is a villa at the foot of the mountain called Taoshan Villa, which is the residence of Mr. Daqin, the director of the academy.

Although Wei Yun's body looks thin outside, after nearly five months of recuperation and exercise, he has become stronger and smaller.

The main reason is that Wei Yun's training intensity is relatively high and consumes a lot of energy. Therefore, although he eats a lot, most of it is consumed and does not turn into fat to stay. However, the tendon flesh gradually bulged.

Even his head suddenly rushed to nearly a foot, and even when he was wearing a coat, he still looked a little thin.

After the Chinese New Year, Xiao Wei took Wei Yun to the village to see Dr. Lin. Dr. Lin was surprised by the huge changes that Wei Yun had made, but after hearing Wei Yun say that he was persistent in training, he did not go into it.

Instead, he told Xiao Wei that Wei Yun's body is almost the same as a normal child and he no longer needs to take medicine to nourish himself. He just needs to keep exercising, eat more meat, and drink more nourishing soup.

The road of more than 20 miles is only about ten kilometers. When Wei Yun was in the army, he had done many times in the ten-kilometer field weight training. Now his body has recovered from strength to strength. This journey of more than 20 miles was the simplest for him.

Chen Shichu set out from home. Before Chen Shichu was halfway through, Wei Yun had already arrived at the academy and greeted the old man in the gatehouse. Wei Yun ran to the dormitory in the backyard, took a basin of cold water, untied her clothes, and started washing in the bathroom.

Many of Wei Yun's classmates lived in the academy. Most of them were young people from all over the countryside. Their families were not particularly wealthy and were far away from the academy.

When Wei Yun arrived at the class, there were already people inside. There were people sitting behind each book case. The person sitting at the head was Master Qin who recruited him to school that day.

Wei Yun came in and saluted Master Xiao Qin, greeted Master Xiao, handed over the homework left by Master Xiao Qin. Master Xiao Qin waved his hand and asked him to return to his seat quickly.

In the classroom, there was no whispering sound. Most of the students were flirting with books on their own. Soon, Master Qin's voice sounded.

Master Qin was the youngest son of Dean Qin. After passing the imperial examination six years ago, he refused to take the exam again. He insisted on going to study everywhere and exploring the mountains and rivers of various places. Dean Qin had no choice but to follow him. Later, Dean Qin retired and returned to Yangzhou. After returning to Yangzhou, Master Qin worked as a teacher in the academy and served with his wife and children.

The old president Qin had three sons and two daughters, all of whom were born by his wife, and had no concubines, so naturally there were no children born to him. The eldest son and the second son both passed the Jinshi in their early years. Now they are officials in the court, and their two daughters are also married in the capital.
Chapter completed!